🏆 My Lawnchair v2 alpha impressions and bug reports

Lawnchair v2 is in the works and we got many alphas to test. I am personally testing it on my Huawei P8 and I'm looking forward to the official stable release. Here's my two cents:

UI

Simply amazing! The Pixel Launcher style is my current favorite and Lawnchair does it even better. There are some things I'd like to see implemented and I am going to mention them later in the review.

Performance

Here I have some problems. My P8 on Android 6.0 is fast enough but I'm seeing too many dropped frames when switching between the home screen and the app drawer. It's not so prominent on LOS 14.1 on my phone. Maybe it's an Android thing. Also, the About section in the settings is very laggy. Otherwise, everything else is fine.

Bugs / Force closes

The "At a glance" and Pill widgets preview in the settings doesn't register any changes.

Lawnchair crashes when the Accent color option is pressed. Here is the log: Logcat

Crash in the About section when you tap on a contributor's name: Logcat

If the Black or Dark theme is on, a black background and dark status bar icons are being shown when entering the settings. Later, it switches to the corresponding themes UI.

Feature requests

I have some feature requests and if added, I can make the switch from Nova Launcher Prime to Lawnchair, more precisely, a gesture to swipe up an app icon/shortcut on the home screen to open a different app or a shortcut.

Here are some other requests I have:

Dynamic clock and Calendar icons support

Separate app drawer grid size settings

Custom accent colors with HTML or RGB values support

Uninstall app shortcut in the pop-up menu showing up when long pressing on an app icon/shortcut/widget

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